Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah and Sam Neill star in the si-fi black comedy, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992.
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Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah and Sam Neill star in the si-fi black comedy, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, 1992.
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Stick with comedy and this...The Man Who Knew Too Little, 1997. Bill Murray and the sexy Joanne Whalley star.
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He Walked by Night, 1948. A police procedural film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann.
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During the film's production, one of the actors, Jack Webb, struck up a friendship with the police technical advisor, Detective Sergeant Marty Wynn, and was inspired by a conversation with Wynn to create the radio and later television program Dragnet.
Me and Mrs. Pony watched this a few months ago - you're right, bleak it is, and compelling it is too. Worth watching.Quote:
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The Apartment, 1960. Billy Wilder writes and directs. Stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray. THE APARTMENT picked up five Oscar wins including Best Picture and Billy Wilder picked up awards for his direction and screenplay, and over the years it's reputation has grown as today it's considered one of the greatest pictures ever made.
CC Baxter finally took his doctor's advice and became a Mensch.:D
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The office Christmas party scene was actually filmed on December 23, 1959, so as to catch everybody in the proper holiday mood. Billy Wilder filmed almost all of it on the first take, stating to an observer, "I wish it were always this easy. Today, I can just shout 'action' and stand back."
To create the effect of a vast sea of faces labouring grimly and impersonally at their desks in the huge insurance company office, designers Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle devised an interesting technique. Full-sized actors sat at the desks in the front and children dressed in suits were used at tiny desks toward the rear, followed by even smaller desks with cut-out figures operated by wires. It gave the effect of a much larger space than could have been achieved in the limited studio space.
This bluray was exclusively restored by Arrow Films and is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 with the original mono soundtrack
Another film with Wilder/Lemmon/ MacLaine now. Irma La Douce, 1963. The Masters of Cinema remastered bluray here.
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In order to be able to play Irma properly, Shirley MacLaine traveled to Paris to see what it was like for real Parisian prostitutes. They were eager to tell her what it was like, and very willing to answer any questions she had. When asked if she would like to "watch them in action", she politely declined, but to her surprise they became indignant. They requested that she watch one of their weekly customers with three of the girls through a small window in the hotel door; she unwillingly obliged.
ive been watching the 5 of these today..
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David Copperfield, 1999.. bbc tv mini series starring Maggie Smith, Pauline Quirk, Ciarán McMenamin, Daniel Ratcliffe, Trevor Eve, Michael Elphick, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Bob Hoskins among many...
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Political satire black comedy now with the 2017, The Death of Stalin. It stars Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Whitehouse, Olga Kurylenko, and Jeffrey Tambor.
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 243 reviews, with an average rating of 8.06/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Death of Stalin finds director/co-writer Armando Iannucci in riotous form, bringing his scabrous political humor to bear on a chapter in history with painfully timely parallels." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 88 out of 100, based on 43 critics, indicating "universal acclaim"
Nikita Khrushchev: I really need your help.
Georgy Zhukov: To do what? There's bodies fucking piling up in the street, it's a bit late, isn't it?
Nikita Khrushchev: What if we blame this on someone...
Georgy Zhukov: Wait...
Nikita Khrushchev: Who's out of control?
Georgy Zhukov: Nicky, be very careful what you say next. Who?
Nikita Khrushchev: Beria.
Georgy Zhukov: I'm going to have to report this conversation. Threatening to do harm or obstruct any member of the Presidium in the process of...
[grins]
Georgy Zhukov: Look at your fucking face!
[bursts out laughing]